Category: Arch/ Anthro
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German archaeologists find Bronze Age sword so well-preserved it ‘almost shines’
Credit: Bavarian State Office for Monument Protection A bronze sword made more than 3,000 years ago that is so well-preserved it “almost still shines” has been unearthed in Germany, officials say. Bavaria’s state office for the preservation of historical monuments says the sword, which is believed to date back to the end of the 14th…
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2,500-year-old bronze artefacts found in eastern Poland | HeritageDaily
A metal detectorist has uncovered a hoard of bronze artefacts during a survey in the village of Czernięcin Poduchowny, eastern Poland. The discovery was made by Łukasz Jabłoński, a licensed detectorist who notified authorities at the Provincial Office for the Protection of Monuments in Lublin. A total of 13 bronze artefacts dating from 2,500-years-ago have…
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Archaeologists find mummy surrounded by coca leaves on hilltop in Peru’s capital
An archaeologist excavates a pre-Hispanic mummy that was discovered next to a training field for a Peruvian professional soccer team in the El Rimac neighborhood of Lima, Peru, Thursday, June 15, 2023. Credit: AP Photo/Martin Mejia Archaeologists have found a pre-Hispanic mummy surrounded by coca leaves on top of a hill in Peru’s capital next…
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Wolf skull deposited in grave to protect against deceased’s spirit | HeritageDaily
Archaeologists excavating a burial mound in Romania’s Dobruja region have suggested that a wolf skull was deposited by grave robbers to protect them against the deceased’s spirit. The mound dates from around 2,000-years-ago and has been mostly ploughed out, however, a geophysical study indicates that it originally had a diameter of up to 75 metres.…
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Museum exhibit in Norway reveals new details on Neanderthals
The Neanderthals weren’t that different from you and me—which is maybe not that strange after all, considering we probably have a bit of a Neanderthal in us. Credit: Tom Björklund No one knows what happened when we, Homo sapiens, first encountered the Neanderthals. But we know we met. We know that for thousands of years…
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Seeking the origin of Indigenous languages in South America
The Tupí-Guaraní languages used in this study (in green) and the Tupían (non-TG) Awetí (in blue), and Mawé (in red), along with the distribution of the TG archaeological record (black dots). Prepared by the authors with QGIS 3 [29], based on based on public domain data and raster images from “Natural Earth”, including data from…
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Climate change likely led to violence in early Andean populations
The south-central Andes and sites included in this study. Contour lines present at 500 m asl and 3000 m asl, defining the coastal, mid-elevation, and highland samples (U.S. Geological Survey, 2010). Credit: Quaternary Research (2023). DOI: 10.1017/qua.2023.23 Climate change in current times has created problems for humans such as wildfires and reduced growing seasons for…
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Well-preserved 3,000-year-old sword found in Germany | HeritageDaily
Archaeologists from the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments have announced the discovery of a well-preserved Bronze Age sword in the town of Nördlingen, Bavaria, Germany. Most Bronze Age remains around Nördlingen belong to the Urnfield Culture (often divided into several local cultures within a broader Urnfield tradition) which emerged around 1300 BC.…
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Remains at Crenshaw site are local, ancestors of Caddo, study finds
John Samuelsen conducting gradiometry survey at the Crenshaw site in southwest Arkansas. Credit: University of Arkansas Hundreds of human skulls and mandibles recovered from the Crenshaw site in southwest Arkansas are the remains of ancestors of the Caddo Nation and not foreign enemies, according to a new study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science.…
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Paleo-Americans hunted mastodons, mammoths and other megafauna in eastern North America 13,000 years ago
The earliest people who lived in North America shared the landscape with huge animals. On any day these hunter-gatherers might encounter a giant, snarling saber-toothed cat ready to pounce, or a group of elephantlike mammoths stripping tree branches. Maybe a herd of giant bison would stampede past. Obviously, you can’t see any of these ice-age…